Specifications

• Height: 37,5 cm
• Material: wood
• Position: seated
• Gender: male
• Indigenous name: adu nuwu, adu zatua
• Price realised: € 4.940,-

Provenance

Gertrudes Bredenditch Krueger, Sao Paolo, Jan Schultz, Sao Paolo, Private collection, Paris, Artcurial, Paris 7-6-2016, lot 5

Publications

Ref.: Feldman, Jerome (ed.) (1985), The Eloquent Dead, 67-68, fig. 47a

Additional information

According to Feldman the diamond shaped eyes ‘are somewhat peculiar to Bawömataluo’, a village in South Nias.

Photo credits

Artcurial, Paris